Brad Fleming from Kanren gave me remote access to a lab MX5 router in order to do the Junos section of this port for when I am very grateful! There are many different needs for H-QoS and may different ways to configure it. I’m going to be going over one particular use case for H-QoS in which I use on a daily basis. More so than any other type of QoS, H-QoS is very hardware specific. Even line-card specific. In this post I’ll be using a Juniper MX5 and a Cisco ME3600X, both which allow me to do H-QoS on their gig ports.

An ethernet physical port can only run at certain speeds. i.e. 10/100/1Gb/etc – Often customer will purchase a sublevel of bandwidth on that bearer speed. For example Customer A wants to buy 30Mb of bandwidth. You can’t run the physicla ports at 30Mb, so the ISP will have the interface run at 100Mb and police inbound at 30Mb. This makes QoS jus a little more complicated. All the ratios we’ve used in the past will ratio themselves at the WAN port’s physical speed. Also the router will not know that if 40Mb of burst comes from the LAN, that the actual bandwidth is only 30Mb.

Going back to the diagram we used in part 1. Let’s say that we want to shape certain traffic to certain bandwidths under congestion. I want EF packets to get 20Mb priority, AF31 packets to get 50Mb and whatever is left to get 30Mb. I want to enable WRED in the BE queue, and also modify the default WRED profile. I’m going to take the assumption that packets have already been marked correctly as shown in my first post. IOS IOS is very simple in it’s configuration: policy-map OUTBOUND_QOS class EF priority 20000 class AF31 bandwidth 50000 class class-default random-detect dscp-based random-detect dscp 0 20 40 5 !

While the concepts of QoS on vendor platforms are similar, the actual configuration is very different. I wanted to do a few posts on the differences between Junos and IOS on the normal QoS things that I do on a day to day basis. For this first post I’m going to use a very simple diagram: On the LAN are hosts with soft-phones. These phones use specific ports but do not mark packets sent with DSCP EF. Our goal here is to ensure voice packets are marked. Any UDP packet with a port number of 5060 I will mark with DSCP EF.